Useless Facts

One for function, one for fun.

 

There is actually a good scientific explanation for why this is! Mothers suck at cooking broccoli.

 

I find that to be the best way to identify aliens pretending to be human. No interest in dessert=alien.

 

It's still common to see edible flowers as decoration on salads or desserts in restaurants in Sweden. They add a nice touch to the whole thing.

 

They never use enough cheese.

 

You can definitely fry broccoli. It is like a sponge for flavor.

 

It's a monotreme, so a mammal with eggs. It also has a toothless snout and porcupine-like quills. It eats termites with its long tongue like an anteater. It also has an unusually low body temperature and the claws of its hind legs face backwards. Like the platypus, it truly does resemble some chimerical creation.

 

So apparently in 1968 there was a pandemic known as the 'Hong Kong Flu' that killed a million people world-wide and 100,000 in the States.

 

Listening to Pink Floyd's 'The Turning Away' as I read this comment, which is about as useless a piece of information as I can provide at this time.

 

Fans of Naruto:
The legendary sanin in Naruto, Jaraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru originated in Japanese folklore.
In the early 1800s, a story depicted the great ninja Jaraiya in the story "the tale of Gallant Jaraiya". In it, Jaraiya was married to Tsunade who had the ability to turn into a slug or a snail. His arch enemy was Orochimaru who was depicted as a serpent handler (sound familiar???).

By the 1860s, 43 installments had been written about these 3 characters.

(All this i found while i was looking up the american voice actress for Tsunade)

 

We all know America had, and still have, a race-relations problem.

Well, apparently there was this one time we decided to have a row about it in an entirely different country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge

Basically, black GIs in a UK village got into a fight with their white officers and wounded up having to (1) protect themselves, and (2) the village that just turned into a warzone.

Meanwhile the Brits are looking at this like, 'what in the sheer fuck!?'

Indeed, this wasn't the first time Americans fought Americans in full view of Europeans. In 1864, the CSS Alabama duked it out with the USS Kersarge just a few mules from Cherbourg, France. Like, six miles away. As in, there were people who could stand by the water's edge and watch the battle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cherbourg_(1864)

https://affotd.com/2014/12/11/the-1778-american-invasion-of-whitehaven-england/
We even tried to invade England at one point, in 1778 under John Paul Jones. Granted it was a legit attempt invasion and not Americans on Americans on British soil, but still.

 

The fact that I had never even heard of Whitehaven and had to look it up gave me a suspicion that it was a fruitless endeavour. They attempted to invade near The Lake District! The place where people go for staycations.

 

Sad but so very true. Maybe this is where my dislike of America came from, because I could never escape it's cultural stranglehold on my country.

 

KFC came to the UK in '65.

Taco Bell came then went but then came back to the UK recently.

 

I thought it's because you were a filthy Communist who hates freedom from dictatorships in a command economy. Maybe your unholy hatred comes from hating freedom?

There's a word for people like you; It's called Communist.

 

I hate those same aspects of America (and I'm not a dirty disgusting Commie ). The mass media complex and the government have a stranglehold on the 'culture' here (and I use that term in the sense scientists do when looking through microscopes). It isn't our fault. Not all of us anyway, though a majority do seem to love the crappy sitcoms and so-called reality TV and fast food all that garbage.

 

But America gave you Seinfeld and Always Sunny in Philadephia!

 

Exactly!

I actually see Always Sunny as a sort of dark portrait of many Americans. Completely self-absorbed and derogatory to everyone around them.

 

Give o'er.

The 'America bashing' is distressing me super greatly.

If I were your moderator I would have this ringleader - this @Hammer - extradited, and shot. Sure, he made a good point about 'Friends' but that is for the historians many years from now.

@Flawed meanwhile probably turns some kind of Queen's Evidence against @Bobby Burrows. He is caged & electro-forced upon national television-internet to read aloud that second book he always threatened to investigate, or to sniff-scratch and read. The record shows he expires in the exertion. I am sorry, man.

...which tense am I in?

@Flawed today inhabits a delightful cactus park, Arizona, and is full of remorse. END

Oh oh @Xoic I believe is the 5th Column traitorous element still at large and hunted, the corpse most prized by small game hunters (USA).

And @Historical Science receives a chocolate medal.

 

Oh, maybe @Bobby was innocent?

 

Usually hyper I'd say...